Re: Joshua II & Elizabeth Seale line
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Re: Joshua II & Elizabeth Seale line
Eric Seale 5/20/09
Mr Seale:
Would you please send the info to me on Joshua and Elizabeth Seale?
Found in Seale and Allied Families by Ida Carrie Seale, pg 98:Notes from Elizabeth Cinderella SEALE Bell, age77. – My father and mother, Joshua and Elizabeth SEALE, were from Miss.They came to Texas in the early days when the Indians were bad.My father was captain in the Indian war and was gone months at a time, after Indians, that mother didn’t see him.When he did come home his hair was so long his children hardly knew him.When he was gone mother lived alone with three little children, two miles from anyone.When dark came she was afraid to have a light ot talk out loud, so afraid the Indians would kill them or carry off her children.We lived in a log house that had puncheon floors that were made with split logs, farther hewed the logs smoothe with a broad axe and drawing knife.The chimney was made of sticks, daubed with mud and moss.Mother had no hoe or any way to dig and plant sweet potatoes, only sticks.Hrses and cattle were wild in the woods, horses called mustangs –caveyards of mustangs (pronounced Ka-va-Yad) meaning droves of horses; wild five and six years old beeves in droves, that would fight.If mother started to walk with the little children across the creek to Uncle Joe SEALE’s she would hide the children behind trees and throw the things, holler and wave her bonnet to scare off the cattle.We lived in Brazos County, four miles from Navasota River crossing, in the direction of Madisonville, 12 miles from whre Old Booneville started, later on, two miles west of that became Bryan, Texas, when I was five years old. We then had a large frame house.Here I rode to school behind the teacher on his old balack horse.He was a crippled man, Mr. Jim Riley, went two miles across that same creek.It was called Little Creek.On a sand hill was the little log schoolhouse with a wide fireplace about 8 or 10 feet wide.The floor was puncheon and the benches were also made of split logs.Instead of a bell a slab of wood was used to rap on the door to call the pupils for ‘books’.Teacher would lie down on a flat rail and take a nap, and when he had chills and fever he would have the children bring cold water from the spring to pour on his head to cool his fever so he could ride old Black Hawk back home. The young people called father and mother uncle Joe and Aunt Lizzie SEALE.We later moved three miles down on Alcorn Creek, near Grass Prairie, then came the confederate war.My two oldest brothers went, the oldest died in Indian Territory.We had corn meal coffee, sweet potato coffee, and coffee made from rye.I helped my little brother whip out the grain over a barrel laid down on a wagon sheet, then pour in the wind to get the chaff out, then parch it brown and made coffee.Brother and I milked twenty cows and finished by time the sun was up, then walked three miles to school, across a creek in war time.We carded and spun thread, wove the cloth, and made and wove the cloth, and made and wore homespun dresses and sang the song of “The Home-Spun Cloth” and many other war songs.I am a true Southern girl.My oldest brother, Calvin, and the younger one, Cazwell, were natural musicians.When I was a little girl brother Calvin drove six yoke of oxen to his big wagon from Brazos County near Little Creek, Alcorn Creek, Bowman Creek, to Houston, to get freight.We called it ‘freighting barels’ as barrels were used for sugar and molasses; coffee came in big sacks, it was still green, had to be parched and ground at home; salt came in large sacks.Everything was unloaded in our Kitchen; we little ones would crowd around when the sugar barrels were being opened and father would say, “Come get big lumps of Sugar, eat all you want.”We paid forty dollars for enough calico (cloth) to make one dress.Mother carried the family Bible twelve miles in her lap riding side saddle on her horse, from Booneville, Texas during the Indian and Mexican times.My father was too old to go to the war but he did a noble part in caring for the widows and orphans.We had plenty of Cattle and hogs; he would round up and drive big fat hogs to market and get supplies for us all.The last year of the war I married a minister, a widower with four children, and he too helped care for the destitute.He and fther helped drive cattle to the army, wich were used as food for the soldiers.About the last drive, or round-up as it was called, father’s horse fell on and injured him and he did not live very long after that.Father was a captain in the Indian war, a Texas Vetran [sp] coming to Texas in the early days, and helped to keep the Indians driven back.”I scribbled this a long time ago.Children: Lewis Perry SEALE b. 29 DEC 1798 in N.C.; d. 5 FEB 1878 in Jasper Co., Tex; moved to Miss with his father in 1812; 8 FEB 1815 joined Captain Spencer’s Company in Marion Co., Miss but Andew Jackson defeated the British in the battle of New Orleans, La. before he could get there; he joined in place of his fther who was incapacitated as the result of his service in the Revolutionary War; m. 5 FEB 1818 to (1) Susannah, daughter of ELIAS PHILIPS of Marion Co., Miss, b. 13 SEP 1799; d. 12 SEP 1840; before moving to Texas m. (2) Eliza Brent. Lydia SEALE b. 21 OCT 1800 in N.C.Martha SEALE b. 23 JAN 1803 in N.C.; m. 23 DEC 1820 to Daniel Reese Warren in Marion Co., Miss.Alexander SEALE b. 23 JAN 1804 in N.C.Daniel Boone SEALE b. 14 JUL 1807 in N.C.; d. 1864; m. Sallie Phillips; d. 1864.James Monroe SEALE b. 14 NOV 1809 in N.C.; d. 4 DEC 1894 in Rogers, Texas; about 1 year old when his parents left N.C. bound for Miss stopping over in Tenn for one year; m. 16 FEB 1831 to Mary Ella Joice; served as a fifer in Civil War along with son, George in the Shubuta Rifles. Elizabeth SEALE b. 18 MAR 1813 in Marion Co., Miss; d. 24 MAR 1893 in Brazos, Co., Tex; m. 10 DEC 1828 to Joshua SEALE, son of DANIEL and REBECCA CRUMPTON SEALE, (a cousin); moved to Texas 1836; 9 children. Thomas SEALE b. 6 JUN 1814.Susannah SEALE b. 9 AUG 1819 in Marion Co., Miss; m. Josiah Parker.Joseph SEALE b. 18 JUN 1820 in Marion, Miss.Mary Ann SEALE b. 11 OCT 1821 in Marion Co., Miss; m. Rev Wm Milburn of Jasper Co., Miss; moved to Tex about 1850.
Thanks.
Joy Smith
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Re: Joshua II & Elizabeth Seale line
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